Sport 16-06-2005 And The Same Goes For Mike Tyson who: Mike Tyson what: Quits boxing after surprise defeat to Irishman Kevin McBride where: Washington DC when: Saturday night snippet: "After everything he had done, it should not have ended like this," mourned David Anderson in The Mirror when Mike Tyson quit boxing at Washington`s MCI Center on Saturday night following his shock defeat by Irishman Kevin McBride. "After becoming the youngest ever world heavyweight champion, it should not have ended with him quitting on his stool." "I`m not going to fight again," said the man they once called Iron Mike, quoted in The Telegraph. "I could have continued but I thought I was getting beat on. I don`t have it anymore. I`ve got the ability to stay in shape but I don`t have the fighting guts anymore. I realised that early in the fight. I`m sorry I let everybody down, I just don`t have it in my heart anymore." "I don`t feel sad for him because of the way he fought," says McBride, quoted in The Mirror. "He`s a crazy man and a bloody lunatic. He tried to break my arm and headbutt me and then he tried to bite me on the nipple when we were in close." The fight was called off by Tyson`s trainer after six rounds and McBride is now being lined up to fight WBC champion and world number one Vitali Klitschko, according to the BBC. "I told my dad before he died that I would fight Mike Tyson and I would beat him," he says. "I showed people that I`m no longer a pretender, I`m a legitimate contender." The Guardian`s boxing correspondent is not sure. "The Irishman, 32, has only once ventured into anything vaguely resembling genuine world-class opposition," recalls John Rawling, "when he was knocked out eight years ago by the relatively light-hitting German Axel Schultz and two fights later was beaten in three by the jazz-playing Mancunian Michael Murray. It is the only win Murray has managed in the last 18 contests of his have-gloves-will-travel career." [... more]

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